The loop from Kingston to Montreal via the Rideau Canal and Ottawa River
would be a good 2 week trip. You might even have time to transit the
Lachine Canal at Montreal if your boat can be made to clear an 8' bridge.
Three weeks would really give you a lot more time to gunkhole and enjoy the
sights ashore. You could easily spend a week in Ottawa and not run out of
things to do...same for Montreal. We did this trip last summer (as part of
a longer 900 mile trip) and it makes for laid back, low anxiety and cheap
cruising filled with lots to do ashore. If you decide to consider this trip
there is tons of info available online from the Friends of the Rideau and
many other souces. Can.Rec.Boating is a good place to start asking questions
also. Spending a few days in the 1000 Islands before entering the Rideau
would be great also but now even 3 weeks would be making you hurry some.
Quinton
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Richard Malcolm" wrote in message
m...
I keep my 25 ft Four Winns up here in Boston. Since I work for a
college, I seem to have some time durring the summer to get away. For
the past couple of years I have paid someone to rent a trailer and
hual my boat somewhere, where I would vacation for 2 weeks or so. 2
years ago, it was to Lake Oneida, where my girlfriend and I traveled
east on the erie canal, then down the hudson to NYC and then to Long
Island sound before we ran out of time and got trailered back to
Boston. Last year, we got trailered to Montreal and worked our way up
the St Lawence, and eventually to Lake Champlain and down to the
Hudson River and ran out of time and got pulled out at Waterford at
the beginning of the Erie Canal.
We cruise around Boston all the time so for our vacation, we like
going somewhere a little more protected such as canals and lakes.
I am in the planning stages for this year and am hoping to get some
ideas of places to go for a 2 week or so vacation. I love quiet
places, but really like marinas and cities even more.

Would love to hear you ideas. Please keep in mind that trailering the
boat cost a lot so that part should not take longer than one day if
possible.
thanks (PS only 26 days till she is back in the water!) and it is
still snowing up here!!!!!

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:35:43 -0600, "QLW" wrote:

The loop from Kingston to Montreal via the Rideau Canal and Ottawa River
would be a good 2 week trip.

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Yes, that was going to be my recommendation also. We made that trip 4
years ago and it is a great cruise, particularly for a small boat
since there is no unprotected water anywhere along the way. There
were many Canadians cruising the entire family on 22 to 24 foot boats.